{"id":246,"date":"2008-10-22T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=246"},"modified":"2008-10-22T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T23:30:00","slug":"help-please-with-test-data-for-the-twitter-vote-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2008\/10\/22\/help-please-with-test-data-for-the-twitter-vote-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Help, please, with test data for the Twitter Vote Report (updated with logo)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Executive summary<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please take a minute to help by providing test data for an election monitoring project<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Details<\/strong><\/p>\n

Momentum on the Twitter Vote Report<\/a> continues to build — Nancy Scola and Allison Fine’s excellent update from Monday<\/a> already looks out of date, and as the steadily-growing partners<\/a> list implies, we’re making excellent progress towards the ambitious goal of\u00c2\u00a0 providing national real-time feedback of election problems.\u00c2\u00a0 Most importantly, we’ve got a logo — designed by TechGrrl Deanna Zandt<\/a>, and it’s gorgeous!<\/p>\n

Also importantly, the planning for Friday’s Jam Session<\/a> is coming along nicely, including on the software side: we’re getting user stories<\/a> in place, as well as firming up the grammar for hashtags<\/a> and the database<\/a> design.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s enough in place that people are prototyping the first applications … and this morning, in the chat room, Dave said he was at the point where he could really use some test data for an iPhone app he’s working on.<\/p>\n

The environment on election day is going to be chaotic; and we’re going to be relying on everyday voters, not just Twitter experts, to report the results.\u00c2\u00a0 So we’re trying to keep things as simple as possible … and even with that, we know we’ll get a lot of errors.\u00c2\u00a0 We want to make the system as tolerant as possible.\u00c2\u00a0 To do that, we need to get a feel for what kind of data we’d like to see.<\/p>\n

So I’ve set up a page on the TVR wiki called “Test data for Dave<\/a>“, where anybody can contribute some examples.\u00c2\u00a0 The first few lines give an idea of some of the complexities we’ll have to deal with:<\/p>\n

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jdp23: #votereport #wait:90 #zip:98005 longest lines I've ever seen in Bellevue\njdp24: #votereport what is jdp23 doing?\u00c2\u00a0 98005\nspoist: L:Wasilla, AK #votereport no lines\npoiwer: ::: ##votereport\nperspot: #zip90210 #votereport out of ballots\npwiersd: McCains name not on ballot #60045 #votereport\nnancyscola: 11215 wait120 line is out the doort #votereport<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The first two came from me, and then lots of other people started getting involved, and so the list is steadily growing.<\/p>\n
Please help contribute as well <\/a>— just click Edit<\/strong>, and the software will walk you through setting up an account if you don’t already have one.\u00c2\u00a0 It’ll only take a few minutes, and you’re doing your bit to help democracy.\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks!<\/p>\n
jon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Executive summary Please take a minute to help by providing test data for an election monitoring project! Details Momentum on the Twitter Vote Report continues to build — Nancy Scola and Allison Fine’s excellent update from Monday already looks out of date, and as the steadily-growing partners list implies, we’re making excellent progress towards the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,16],"tags":[25,133,325,378,379,393,401],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","category-social-computing","category-tales-from-the-net","tag-activism","tag-election08","tag-social-networks","tag-twitter","tag-twitter-vote-report","tag-voting-rights","tag-wikis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}